The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 14
But if the sight of the blood on the ground turned her faint, the sight of the robber captain walking up and down was a greater shock still.
Who acts: sight, robber captain · What happens: turn, walk, be, sight · To what, where: faint, greater shock, blood, robber captain
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, robber captain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 turned | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sight | det |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 blood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 blood | det |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sight | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blood | nmod |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 faint | nmod:poss |
| 13 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 turned | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sight | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sight | det |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shock | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 captain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 captain | det |
| 19 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 captain | compound |
| 20 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sight | nmod |
| 21 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 captain | acl |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 21 walking | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 down | cc |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 up | conj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 shock | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 shock | det |
| 27 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 shock | amod |
| 28 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | parataxis |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 turned | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the sight of the blood on the ground | sight's faint | still | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent faint=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | the robber captain not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the sight of the robber captain | a greater shock | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sight | the blood on the ground | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | sight | the robber captain | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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